Kris Kuhlman
@kkuhlman.bsky.social
Hydrogeophysicist | salt | two-phase flow in tuff | groundwater | hydrology | Hail Mr Skunk
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Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.
December 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.
seeing aurora in Albuquerque
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
seeing aurora in Albuquerque
Last camping trip of the season at Water Canyon near Socorro. Great campsite and a fun hike on the mesa.
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Last camping trip of the season at Water Canyon near Socorro. Great campsite and a fun hike on the mesa.
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Is science too obsessed with metrics, large-scale projects & “blockbuster” outputs? Desai & Jun argued that preserving the "auteur" spirit of individual creativity, exploration and risk-taking is essential for maintaining the creativity that drew us into science in the 1st place.
November 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Is science too obsessed with metrics, large-scale projects & “blockbuster” outputs? Desai & Jun argued that preserving the "auteur" spirit of individual creativity, exploration and risk-taking is essential for maintaining the creativity that drew us into science in the 1st place.
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A massive thank you to the folks from the STFC & Boulby Underground Laboratory for showing me around for #DarkMatterDay!
We went 1km underground & I spoke with people who do this every day to better understand how our universe works. It was such a unique experience & I can't wait to show you more!!
We went 1km underground & I spoke with people who do this every day to better understand how our universe works. It was such a unique experience & I can't wait to show you more!!
November 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A massive thank you to the folks from the STFC & Boulby Underground Laboratory for showing me around for #DarkMatterDay!
We went 1km underground & I spoke with people who do this every day to better understand how our universe works. It was such a unique experience & I can't wait to show you more!!
We went 1km underground & I spoke with people who do this every day to better understand how our universe works. It was such a unique experience & I can't wait to show you more!!
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maybe this next cup of coffee will fix me
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
maybe this next cup of coffee will fix me
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"tarmac is short for tarmacadam" sounds like a shitpost but it's literally true
today's etymology is "tarmac": a clipping of "tarmacadam" via "tar" (because you add tar) + "macadam" (a type of crushed-rock road paving material/technique), the latter named after its inventor 19th century Scottish engineer John McAdam en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarmaca...
Tarmacadam - Wikipedia
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October 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
"tarmac is short for tarmacadam" sounds like a shitpost but it's literally true
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Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
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Most of an Earthquake’s Energy Is Released as Heat, Not Shaking. Via @scientific_american #Geology #RocksForJocks #EarthScience #seismology
Most of an Earthquake’s Energy Is Released as Heat, Not Shaking
Up to 98 percent of the energy of an earthquake goes into flash heating rocks, not shaking the ground, new research shows. The finding could help yield better earthquake forecasts
www.scientificamerican.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Most of an Earthquake’s Energy Is Released as Heat, Not Shaking. Via @scientific_american #Geology #RocksForJocks #EarthScience #seismology
Did two nights of camping by Trampas Lakes (11,300 ft) with Boy Scouts; ten of us making a six mile hike in. Gorgeous area, in the shadows of the second highest peak in NM.
September 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Did two nights of camping by Trampas Lakes (11,300 ft) with Boy Scouts; ten of us making a six mile hike in. Gorgeous area, in the shadows of the second highest peak in NM.
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There is a tongue-in-cheek unit of volume called the Hubble-barn, equal to the volume of a cylinder with cross-sectional area of one barn (100 fm^2 - about the size of a uranium nucleus) and height of one Hubble length (14.4 billion light years).
It works out to three and a half gallons.
It works out to three and a half gallons.
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
There is a tongue-in-cheek unit of volume called the Hubble-barn, equal to the volume of a cylinder with cross-sectional area of one barn (100 fm^2 - about the size of a uranium nucleus) and height of one Hubble length (14.4 billion light years).
It works out to three and a half gallons.
It works out to three and a half gallons.
Just read A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Tombs of Atuan aloud with the kids in the evenings over the last week. They are great stories! Looking forward to the rest of the books
August 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Just read A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Tombs of Atuan aloud with the kids in the evenings over the last week. They are great stories! Looking forward to the rest of the books
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The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.
July 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.
Took the kids to Burque Bakehouse as a treat. WOW, best baked sweets and bread I have had in a long time. Worth the line
August 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Took the kids to Burque Bakehouse as a treat. WOW, best baked sweets and bread I have had in a long time. Worth the line
Hiked to Nambe lake in pecos wilderness today. Gorgeous, but steep hike
July 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Hiked to Nambe lake in pecos wilderness today. Gorgeous, but steep hike
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Have you watched the NGI documentary on the 1978 Rissa quick clay landslide? It’s one of my absolute favs, cannot count how many times I’ve watched it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-q...
The Quick Clay Landslide at Rissa - 1978 (English commentary)
YouTube video by NGI - Norges Geotekniske Institutt
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June 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Have you watched the NGI documentary on the 1978 Rissa quick clay landslide? It’s one of my absolute favs, cannot count how many times I’ve watched it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-q...
Went camping at Manzano State park and found a centipede under tent when packing up. Cool
June 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Went camping at Manzano State park and found a centipede under tent when packing up. Cool
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90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.
May 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.
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My quote of the day
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
June 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My quote of the day
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Enjoying some distraction with this animation of seasonal greenness cycles I made using MODIS EVI data back in 2022. For example, look at the mid-late summer surge of the monsoon in northwestern Mexico, or how cropland in the Cornbelt and Lower Mississippi Valley greens up later...
May 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Enjoying some distraction with this animation of seasonal greenness cycles I made using MODIS EVI data back in 2022. For example, look at the mid-late summer surge of the monsoon in northwestern Mexico, or how cropland in the Cornbelt and Lower Mississippi Valley greens up later...
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"Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds"
gizmodo.com/its-breathta...
gizmodo.com/its-breathta...
May 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds"
gizmodo.com/its-breathta...
gizmodo.com/its-breathta...
Co-author on a new paper summarizing the results of DECOVALEX-2023, which was a model-data comparison for THMC models and radioactive waste disposal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
DECOVALEX-2023: An International Collaboration for Advancing the Understanding and Modeling of Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) Processes in Geological Systems
The DECOVALEX initiative is an international research collaboration (www.decovalex.org), initiated in 1992, for advancing the understanding and modeli…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Co-author on a new paper summarizing the results of DECOVALEX-2023, which was a model-data comparison for THMC models and radioactive waste disposal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...